Is Your Chart a Detective Story? Or a Police Report?

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Modern statistical displays of data—grids of scatterplots for inspecting correlations, for example—succeed by being transparent and allowing trends in the data to stand out. In contrast, classic data visualizations often succeed, paradoxically, by being a bit opaque: a puzzle that a reader figures out. Consider the visualization created by information designer Will Burtin in 1951 […]

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